St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-20
STRAY suNREAMs

derfully worked up over a gigantic scheme
of his own for making beet sugar. He has
spent the summer in studying the methods
of manufacturing beet sugar in France and
Germany, and comes back home with the
purpose of establishing a mammoth manu-
factory in California. He bought lot of
machinery in Cologne and Prague, and says
he is now convinced that beet sugar-making
with his new machinery will create one of
the greatest industries the United States ever
had.
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SpREoKLEs is being crowded out of his
Hawaiian sugar business. A rival sugar refin-
ing company has entered the field against
him, and since King KALAKUA succeeded in
negotiating $4,000 loan from English
capitalists, he has cut loose from SPREKCLEs'
domination, and the result has been a vio-
lent quarrel between the monarch of HiWaii
and his former money-lender. Three years
ago, when SPRECKLEs sugar business was at
its heighth in Hiwaii, he made 600 barrels of
sugar every day, every barrel worth $50, thus
giving him daily revenue of 5000, or
$3.50, 900 year. Out of his profits he has
managed to salt down S25 ,OOO, 600, which he
proposes to put in the beet sugar business in
this country.
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Among the interesting features of the
Philadelphia centennial celebration were the
centennial issues of the daily press, The
North American is presented q fac-simile of
the edition issued Sept 10, 1857, under the
title The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Ad-
vertiser in which sppeared the first printed
copy of the constitution. But the most in
teresting feature of all was the arrival at the
North American Office, last Wednesday
nj nf 10 of for +I>,
last take of the constitution in 1887 The
son is eighty seven years DID, but hale and
hearty, and the veteran at once produced his
fathers stick and rule and set the same
''take" for the edition issued the next morn
ing.
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St. Paul is suffering from school book
famine just now. The schools are all in full
blast without an adequate supply of books.
1t is little rough on Minnesota when we
have to send to Chicago and ST. Louis for
books, but it is better than having no books
at all for our children to study. This is one
of the beautiful results of having a school
book monopoly in connection with our free
schools.
Prof JOHN FIsKE is of opinion that Mr..
DoNNELLY's SHAKEsPEARIAN theories are use
full in keeping people out of devilment. In
b recent letter to the New York World con-
corning the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES contro-
versy Prof. FIsKE says: 81 have only to say
that if a man really likes to amuse himself
with such stuff, 1 can see no objection. 1t
keeps him busy, and is far less dangerous
than if he were to NEEDLE with questions
about labor and capital
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Uncle SAM must be fond of variety of col
ors. He is always wanting to change the
color of his postage stamps. Just as we are
getting used to one color and begin to think it
pretty; the old fellow is off again on another
color. We have. been licking red stamps just
long enough to begin to have an affection
for them, when here comes along the old
green fellows of war times, and the reddies
now have to step aside for the veterans. 1t is
gratifying to observe, however, that Uncle
SAM is loyal enough to the memory of the
father of his county to keep G. WIS picture
ON deck, amid all the changing vicissitudes
of postage stamps career.